During the course of Bad Neighborsthe Guardian finds that a conflict between the Hive and Fallen on Titan, who had arrived after following the survivors of the City to Titan, has escalated and the Fallen are now going to build a bomb to kill the Hive. However the bomb will cause too much damage, risking the structural integrity of the entire Rig, forcing the player to intervene and intercept the Fallen in the process of creating the bomb. Ghost then decides however that this bomb could still be useful if used away from the Rig, against the Hive nests at Tidal Anchor. Ghost uses the Fallen's bomb components to craft his own bomb, which the player then uses to destroy a Hive "Resonator" device, luring out the Hive in Tidal Anchor responsible for its construction, and killing them all.

Gameplay

Sloane: Fallen first. They're using fuel cells to build an explosive countermeasure to the Hive. Sloppy stuff. It'll blow us all sky high.

Disarm the Fallen

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Take fuel cells from the Fallen

The player engages the Fallen around The Rig, collecting the Fallen Fuel Cell" component they drop

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Ghost: We've got their fuel cells! They won't be blowing up anything today. Hmm, I see what they were doing. Volatile catenary, percussion cap...

Sloane: Good. Sending you coordinates to the Hive.

Ghost: Right, coordinates, Hive... if we tweak this... and rejigger that... it should work

Sloane: What should work?

Ghost:We'll call it a Hive Disruptor. Let's go disrupt some Hive.

Find the Hive Wizards

Locate the Wizards and learn what they're up to

The player enters Tidal Anchor, finding it full of Hive. The player fights through the Hive, headed outside before finding their progress blocked by a Shrieker guarding a closed door in the vicinity of TM-TA-2:

Ghost: "It seems like these floating stones mark places where the Hive have weakened the line between our world and theirs. Bet all the weird magic they have out here comes from sources like this."

Open the door

Get to the console and open the door

Open the door

Find the Hive Wizards

Locate the Wizards and learn what they're up to

The player makes it outside, battling through the Hive towards the Wizards,, encountering another Shrieker guarding the bridge towards platform 1. The player continues on, reaching the first of the Wave Energy Generator platforms seen earlier during Riptide.

Ghost: Which way, Sloane?

Sloane: Up. You're looking for the top of a tower, the central platform.

Climb the Tower

Ascend the Tower to find the Wizards

The player reaches the top of the first generator tower, where floating Hive platforms appear, allowing the player to proceed directly on to the central tower.

Sloane: Eliminate the Wizards, destroy their project, and stabilise this Rig

The player reaches the top of the central platform, finding a mysterious Hive device, a "Eesonator", left unguarded.

Place Hive Disruptor

Plant the Hive Disruptor on the mysterious device.

Interact

Detonate Hive Disruptor

Shoot the fuel cells

The player plants the bomb, withdraws a safe distance and then detonates it, destroying the Hive device.

Sloane: What was that? I could feel the shaking from here. I said stabilise, not sink! What did you do?

Ghost: Tell you later.

The Hive appear and commence battle against the player. The Wizards are called "Operant"